[AISWorld] Tenure Track Assistant Professorships in Digitalization - Copenhagen Business School (CBS)

[Chee-Wee Tan]

[Tenure Track Assistant Professorships in Digitalization]

Copenhagen Business School (CBS) invites applications for a number of vacant International Tenure Track Assistant Professorships at the Department of Digitalization (DIGI).
 
The Department of Digitalization is one of the largest of its kind in Europe. Our aspirations are equally grand for our research and for our degree programmes. Currently the Department of Digitalization ranks 1st in Europe and 15th worldwide in terms of publications in the AIS Senior Scholars’ ‘Basket of Eight’ journals. The department´s research is organized around themes which are contemporary, dynamic, inter-disciplinary and topical in nature.  
 
The department´s current research themes are the following:  
• Cashless Society
• IT challenges in Mergers and Acquisitions   
• Big Social Data Analysis   
• Internet of Things   
• Cloud Business  
• Sharing Economy  
• Digital Transformation of Work  
• Blockchain  
• Sports Digitalization  
 
In the future they might be expanded to include:
• Business aspects of privacy and security   
 
Please read more about the department at: https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-digitalization and please familiarize yourself with our strategy (that can be found via “Mission and Values”). 
 
Educational responsibilities with the department comprise undergraduate and graduate teaching in: Bachelor in Business Administration and Information Systems, MSc in Business Administration and Information Systems and the MSc in IT (eBusiness).  
 
The Assistant Professorship is a four-year tenure track position in accordance with Danish legislation and CBS regulations. Decision on tenure is taken between the third and the fourth year.
 
To fulfill the teaching and research requirements of the position, the selected applicant(s) is expected to be physically present on a regular basis and actively participate in the teaching and research activities of the department. The successful applicant is obliged to participate in the assistant professor program at CBS on teaching principles and methods in order to fulfill the necessary pedagogical requirements for the transition to tenured associate professor.  

<Responsibilities>
• Teaching and associated examination in existing CBS programs, including Executive Education 
• Performing individual and collaborative research meeting high international standards
• Promoting CBS’s academic reputation
• Initiating, fund raising and coordinating research projects
• Reinforcing CBS’s teaching and research capabilities and fulfilling other relevant assignments at CBS
• Contributing to the administrative duties of the department and to institutional tasks
• Disseminating findings to the public in general and to CBS’s stakeholders in particular
• Delivering research and assuming responsibility for the academic development of the relevant discipline
• Engaging in publishing, scientific communication and research-based teaching
• Participating regularly in research activities such as conferences, seminars and workshops 

The Assistant Professor is expected to bolster the department’s research competencies as well as to strengthen CBS’s international research position.  
 
<Qualifications>
The applicant must hold a PhD or the equivalent. Emphasis is placed on the applicant’s research potential, which means that an applicant with great research potential may be preferred to one with huge research output. Particular emphasis is placed on the applicant´s ability to engage in theme-based, interdisciplinary research within collaborative teams. In terms of teaching, special attention is given to the applicant´s ideas and experience with incorporating technology into classroom settings. The applicant must have professional proficiency in English (written and spoken).
 
CBS has a broad commitment to the excellence, distinctiveness and relevance of its teaching and research programmes. Candidates who wish to join us should demonstrate enthusiasm for working in an organisation of this type (highlighting, for example, relevant business, educational and valorization activities).

For further information, please contact: Head of Department, Jan Damsgaard, tel.: +45 3815 2490, e-mail: jd.itm at cbs.dk.

Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s agreement with the Central Academic Organization.
 
<Application>
Application must be sent via the electronic recruitment system.
 
Application must include:  
• A statement of application.   
• Proof of qualifications and a full CV.   
• Documentation of relevant, significant, original research at an international level, including publications in the field’s internationally recognized journals and citations in the Social Science Citation Index and/or Google Scholar.
• Documentation of teaching qualifications or other material for the evaluation of his/her pedagogical proficiency.
• Information indicating experience in research management, industry co-operation and international co-operation.
• A complete, numbered list of publications (indicating titles, co-authors, page numbers and year) with an * marking of the academic productions to be considered during the review. A maximum of 10 publications for review are allowed. Applicants are requested to prioritise their publications in relation to the field of this job advertisement.
• Copies of the publications marked with an *. Only publications written in English (or another specified principal language, according to research tradition) or one of the Scandinavian languages will be taken into consideration.
 
An expert committee will be reviewing the received job applications. The committee’s recommendation of each candidate will be submitted to the person in question.
 
All application material, including all appendices (see items above) must be received by the application deadline.
 
Details about CBS and the Department of Digitalization are available at: http://www.cbs.dk. 

<ICIS 2018 Preliminary Interviews>
Preliminary interviews with applicants will be conducted during ICIS 2018 in San Francisco.
 
Application Deadline: 2nd December 2018.

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Chee-Wee, Tan (陈致玮)
 
Professor
Department of Digitalization
Copenhagen Business School
Howitzvej 60, 4.18 | DK - 2000 Frederiksberg | Denmark
T: +45 4185-2149 | E: ct.digi at cbs.dk | W: www.cbs.dk/en/staff/ctadigi